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Questions to the Mayor Mayor's Question Time, 21 January 2021 Questions to the Mayor Mayor's Question Time, 21 January 2021 PRIORITY ORDER PAPER Report No: 5 Subject: Questions to the Mayor Report of: Executive Director of Secretariat Cost of Living Question No: 2021/0133 Shaun Bailey Are you satisfied that you have done all you can to reduce the of cost of living for Londoners? New Years’ Fireworks Display Question No: 2021/0043 Peter Whittle Is the Mayor happy with the public’s response to his New Years’ fireworks display? Net loss of council homes Question No: 2021/0040 Siân Berry Will London soon be turning a corner in terms of the net loss of council homes? Vaccine roll-out Question No: 2021/0372 Onkar Sahota How is the coronavirus vaccine roll-out impacting the rate of infection in London? London’s economy in 2021 Question No: 2021/0256 Leonie Cooper In the context of Brexit and COVID, what is the outlook for London’s economy in 2021? Oyster Auto Top-Up Question No: 2021/0118 Keith Prince In the light of your decision to make TfL ticket machines cashless, will you reduce the minimum Oyster Auto top-up from £20 to £10? TfL station car park developments Question No: 2021/0104 Andrew Boff Do you intend to revise any of TfL’s station car park development schemes? Action on the cladding and fire safety scandal Question No: 2021/0057 Caroline Pidgeon What steps are you taking to support leaseholders and residents impacted by the cladding and fire safety scandal in London? Policing implications of leaving the EU Question No: 2021/0290 Unmesh Desai What impact has there been on the Met’s operations following the end of the Brexit transition period and the loss of EU policing tools which were previously in place? Support for the 3 million excluded Question No: 2021/0352 Joanne McCartney What actions have you taken as Mayor to help support those Londoners who are part of the 3 million excluded from current support packages? Electric Buses Question No: 2021/0238 Tony Devenish With the news that Coventry and Oxford are set to become the first UK all-electric bus cities, how long will it take London to join them? The Extraordinary Funding and Financing Agreement for Transport for London Question No: 2021/0356 Alison Moore What does London need to make TfL financially sustainable by 2023? Rough sleeping in the second wave – during winter Question No: 2021/0360 Murad Qureshi What action is being taken to support Londoners who are sleeping rough during this second wave of COVID-19, which has hit during the winter? Covid-19 Data Question No: 2021/0044 David Kurten Which data sources do you use to inform your statements on Covid-19? Waking Watch Relief Fund Question No: 2021/0313 Andrew Dismore The Government has announced a ‘Waking Watch Relief Fund’ that will pay for fire alarm systems to be installed in high rise residential buildings which have had to have waking watches as temporary fire safety measures because of fire safety defects which have still not been fixed three and a half years after the Grenfell Tower fire. This fund, however, will not actually pay for waking watches, only a fire alarm system. Many buildings need both. The LFB says there are (as at 18 December) 590 buildings with temporary fire safety measures and around 250 of these just have waking watches. Will you press the Government to actually fund waking watches as well as installation of fire alarm systems? Police Covid Impact Question No: 2021/0167 Steve O’Connell It has recently been reported that due to Covid, there were 1300 Met Police Officers either ill or self-isolating. What is the current situation and what impact has this had on policing London? Reinventing the High Street Question No: 2021/0376 Navin Shah How is the London Recovery Board ‘reinventing the high street’ in Outer London and what actions are being considered, both during the pandemic and beyond to halt the decline of high streets and create self-sufficient neighbourhoods contributing to the local economy and that of London? Impact of Government’s proposed new Permitted Development Right Question No: 2021/0351 Nicky Gavron In answer to my question 2020/4485 you expressed concern that the Government’s new Use Class E, that amalgamates shops, offices, surgeries, nurseries, gyms and light industry into a single use class, would be detrimental to the high street. Are you also concerned that further government proposed changes to permitted development rights, allowing any of these uses to become residential, will threaten London’s high streets and town centres even more? Traffic issues at Kew Green Question No: 2021/0228 Tony Arbour Are local residents wrong to strongly object to Richmond Council’s decision to move the Kew Gardens coach drop-off from the Victoria Gate to Kew Green? Rickets in Children Question No: 2021/0252 Jennette Arnold OBE What work are you doing to combat rickets in children in London? Havering College Work Experience Question No: 2021/0119 Keith Prince I’ve been contacted by Havering College who would like to give their students some practical work experience. Given that Hornchurch Station ticket hall is looking tired and in need of some TLC, would you agree to TfL contacting me with a view to giving the students an opportunity to gain work experience by sprucing up the ticket hall? Covid-19 Fines Question No: 2021/0249 Tony Devenish Please update us on the number of covid fines issued by the Met Police and TfL to date? Ambitious target, or empty rhetoric? Question No: 2021/0257 Leonie Cooper Do you agree with the Green Alliance that the Government’s ambitious 2030 emissions target will not be met unless the Government devotes resources to ensuring it is met? Census 2021 Question No: 2021/0106 Andrew Boff What involvement has your office had in the preparations for the 2021 Census? Surface water flooding Question No: 2021/0002 Caroline Russell What are you doing to reduce the risk of surface water flooding in London? QUESTIONS FOR WRITTEN ANSWER Questions not asked during Mayor’s Question time will be given a written response by 26 January, 2021. Priorities for a future coronavirus inquiry Question No: 2021/0003 Caroline Russell Testing and contact tracing services have been too slow and have not had enough capacity to play their full part in controlling the coronavirus pandemic. Would you support a rapid review of these services in London to ensure these tools are ready to support public health in a future pandemic? Environment representation on the London Recovery Board Question No: 2021/0004 Caroline Russell The London Recovery Board has a single representative from the environmental sector, and they are from a national charity. Why is there no representation for environmental sector organisations with a remit for London, such as the Environment Agency? Impact of fireworks on air pollution Question No: 2021/0005 Caroline Russell A constituent has raised the issue of the impact of fireworks on air pollution. What data have you collected on the impact of fireworks on air pollution across the year as well as the impact of the GLA fireworks each New Year’s Eve? Air pollution and coronavirus mortality Question No: 2021/0006 Caroline Russell There is now peer-reviewed research by Francesca Dominici from Harvard University linking long-term exposure to air pollution with increased mortality from Covid-19. Will you commission new research to explore the impact air pollution may have had on coronavirus cases and mortality in London? Reviewing emissions inventories Question No: 2021/0007 Caroline Russell Department for Transport (DfT) road traffic estimates have been revised upwards, after a benchmarking exercise to review minor road traffic flows. Does this have a further knock-on impact on modelling of air pollution based on traffic counts such as the London Atmospheric Emissions Inventory (LAEI) 2016? Increased minor road traffic Question No: 2021/0008 Caroline Russell Department for Transport (DfT) road traffic estimates have been revised upwards, after a benchmarking exercise to review minor road traffic flows. What work has Transport for London (TfL) undertaken to review their modelling and data in light of this revision? Reducing nappy waste Question No: 2021/0009 Caroline Russell Real Nappies for London has calculated that, between 2016 and 2019, single-use disposable nappies created 46,843 tonnes of carbon emissions per year across London boroughs. What steps are you taking to reduce carbon emissions resulting from the use and disposal of single-use disposable nappies in London? Breathe London sensors in bus depots Question No: 2021/0010 Caroline Russell Your announcement on 14 December 2020 stated that it was for community groups, charities and boroughs to ‘buy in’ to the Breathe London network. One of the first hotspots of concern identified in your 24 July 2019 press release was a bus garage in Holloway. Will you require bus companies to install air pollution monitoring in bus depots given this concerning finding, the cheap cost of sensors and the potential links from air pollution exposure to worsened outcomes from coronavirus and other causes? Breathe London sensors in the community Question No: 2021/0011 Caroline Russell A constituent has written to me asking why Londoners affected by air pollution should have to pay to ‘buy in’ to the Breathe London network, rather than the businesses responsible for generating the toxic air that’s causing so much harm to people’s lives. In the wake of the Coroner’s finding in December 2020 that air pollution played a role in the tragic death of nine-year-old Ella Adoo-Kissi-Debrah in
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